Re: Network Module Interface no add patch...

[<jam...@te...>]

Its based off of the .990 sources.  I was using that because it was
supposed to be the latest
stable one until today. ...james




Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>@lists.sourceforge.net on 09/10/2002
09:18:15 PM

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That sounds like a good patch, but I had trouble applying it.
Is your code based off the 0.999 version of webmin? Some similar
access control options were contributed by another user since
the 0.990 release ..

  - Jamie

jam...@te... wrote:

> Hi Jamie,
>
> It was desirable in our deployment of webmin to have the option the
> interfaces submodule of the
> network module, to make it so that a user could could view and edit an
> interface but they
> could not create a new one.  At the end of this email I have attached a
> patch that adds this
> ability.  The patch includes the following changes (high level):
>
>      - Adds the option to add an interface (yes/no) to the
acl_security.pl
> file.
>      - Adds text for not being able to add an interface to lang/en.
>      - Adds text for not being able to view an interface.
>      -  list_ifcs.cgi now uses the cannot view interface error message if
> they
>          cannot even view the interface.
>      - list_ifcs.cgi does not show a link to add an interface if they
user
> does not have
>        that right.
>      - edit_aifcs.cgi checks to see how it was called.  If it was called
to
> create a
>         an interface it determines if the user can and if not gives an
> error.  If it
>         was called to edit an interface it checks if the user can edit
it.
> If he/she can't
>         then it gives an error.
>
> I set it up so that even if a user could not edit an interface, if
allowed
> to he/she can add
> one.  I actually not totally sure of that decision; it seemed like the
> flexible thing to do, but
> it would have been a tiny bit less code changes if I would have added
> append to edit, view, no.
>
> I did not update all the language files (only english).  I could have
done
> the Espanol one, but
> I was a little unsure of the exact grammer.
>
> Anyway, I hope the patch will be useful.
>
> Cheers...james





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